Knowing your strengths can help you focus on and use them to your advantage. Odd as it may seem, not all of us know what we’re good at, though. One shortcut to figuring it out? Consider the compliments you brush off.

There’s something to be said for learning to take a compliment, and a lot of us are really bad at it. When a friend, coworker, or boss praises us for a job well done, we’ll brush it off and say something like, “eh, it’s no big deal.” If you’re trying to improve your compliment-accepting skills, here’s how to respond…

There are tons of words worth
removing from your writing, but one that many of us say too often out loud is "actually." As Buffer employee Carolyn Kopprasch points out, saying "actually" tends to make people feel stupid.

No matter who you are, it's easy to accidentally let a backhanded compliment slip through your dialogue. Maybe it's an overemphasis on a word like "actually," or an accidental "but" after saying something nice, but either way, it's annoying for the person on the receiving end. The Art of Manliness created the…

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